Marie Ducaté, an artist trained at the Beaux-Arts de Lille, moved from painting to ceramics, glass and textiles and now works with tracing paper (calque).
This hands-on workshop explores the many facets of tracing and mixed media, examining techniques across calque, fabric, ceramic and glass. Participants investigate material interactions, experimental processes and compositional approaches while developing practical creative methods to integrate tracing into personal practice.
In French.
Discover a lively weekend of storytelling, hands-on creativity and playful discovery across Geneva’s public libraries and partner institutions. Families will find musical readings, creative workshops, participatory animations, book-based games, treasure hunts, toy-making ateliers, guided visits, film screenings and a varied youth programme. Children can explore sounds, colours and movement, make things with their hands and spark their imagination through shared stories and playful activities designed to inspire curiosity and creativity.
Week of events in Geneva bringing people together to confront racism through talks, roundtables, screenings, theatre, workshops, marches and guided visits. Activities are designed for all community members and include performances, film screenings, literary encounters, a human library, youth workshops and participatory theatre. The programme encourages listening, dialogue and collective reflection, offering multiple ways for neighbours and organisations to connect, learn and act together for a more inclusive city.
Graffiti artist Amikal presents an in-depth exploration of Geneva’s street art scene through murals, tags and public interventions. The narrative situates tagging and graffiti within contemporary urban culture, unpacking origins, symbolism, authorship and networks among practitioners. Works range from large-scale painted murals to intimate tags and site-specific interventions, while discussions address techniques, materials and the codes that shape this subversive visual language. The project reveals how street practices negotiate public space and cultural visibility.
In French.
Adrien Mangili, author of Natural Magic and Free Thought, presents his research on the paradoxical influence of natural magic during the Renaissance and the seventeenth century.
He discusses how natural magic, as an explanatory rival to religion, enabled early free thinkers to reframe miracles as secret forces of nature, thereby challenging theological authority and contributing to the emergence of critical, scientific inquiry.
In French.
Yvon, a pre-cinema artist, leads this workshop introducing participants to 19th-century projection techniques and magic-lantern performance, with practical demonstrations and hands-on guidance.
Participants will design and create a short phantasmagoric show using fantascopes and hand-crafted imagery, exploring composition, timing and projection methods and presentation. The session examines narrative staging and visual effects that produce eerie and humorous atmospheres while connecting to 19th-century spectacle.
In French.
This illustration workshop explores how generative AI can visualise hybrid insects born from plastic pollution and non-recyclable waste. Combining ecological speculation and visual fiction, it examines metamorphoses of life and matter in the Anthropocene and the aesthetic, ethical and material implications of synthetic lifeforms. Participants investigate creative image-generation techniques, concept development and critical reflection on the technological mediation of ecological narratives.
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